MARGATE, Fla. — Margate Fire Rescue personnel suspected lightning was to blame for a house fire on Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters responded at about 5:50 p.m. on Saturday to a house along Southwest 62nd Terrace near Fifth Street.
“Preliminary investigation is showing that a fuse box may have been struck by lightning, which caused a fire to start in the residential garage,” Lt. William Snyder, a spokesman for MPD, wrote in a statement…